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low ranges of hills jutting but onto the lains. 
The country is very similiar to that around Villa Mont 
with larger,taller trees, on the hills and lower 
thicker scrub on the plains. About half way to 
Caroiri the plain rises somewhat and the earth seems to 
be of an impervious clay in large patches,causing 
islands of savanna scattered about ,while the inter¬ 
vening woodland is much lower and scrubbier. 
About 35 miles south of Camiri the little village of 
Buyaibi is passed (mentioned in literature,or by 
Steinbach). There is another small hamlet further 
south,now occupied by the Paraguayans,who hold the 
,road from about 20 miles north of Villa Montes to 
within a few miles of Buyaibi. 
Some twenty miles south of Camiri the road swings 
west through a pass between the main range and an 
outlying range of high hills,and from there on passes 
through rather broken country,to Camiri,which is on 
the Rio Parapatiisouth bank) The Standard has a small 
camp there,no permanent houses,and employes Y/ere livinj 
in tent houses. ITo americans there at this time. 
There is a considerable village to one side of the 
^ Oil Camp. The road from Camiri swings un stream 
' a fev/ kilometers and crosses the Rio Parapati on a 
new suspension bridge,then back down a short distance 
to the Military Post of Chorete, Prom here abroad 
swings northeast to Santa Cruz and another north 
east to Sucre,by way of Muyopampa,Monteagudo and the 
Kio Azero, 
Lagunillas . (alt. 3,500 feet) 
ibe road from Chorete follows a long gently 
sloping valley northeast for a considerable distance, 
crossed a divide into head of -another valley and 
across this ,up the Cuesta del Incahuasi,but shortly 
after crossing into this valley a road branches off to 
the right which follows down the valley and across 
to the foot of a high range of hills(rather mountains) 
at^the foot of which lies Lagunillas.. It is a small 
vij-lage,verj/ old,wii.h the housed made in >the oldniassivt 
st 3 '-le,many with round pillars supporting the verandas 
along the street side,under -which run the sidewalks. 
It, took us all day to reach Camiri from Villa 
Montes. We slept there and next morning left at 9 A.M. 
for Chorete. A further delay thsre at the '-Posta and w€ 
left at 10 A,If., reaching Lagunillas about 1 P.M. 
Collecting v/as started the next day. The valley 
above the village is soDie-what broken,but with consid‘« 
erable level land,but below the town it widens out 
to nearly two miles,with a lower range of parallel 
